"(A) baggy story of post-war Italy at the height of the cold war. This diverting post-modernist entertainment -- about narcotics, the cheap potency of Hollywood, the coming of television, the balance of political power, and how the effects knock on down the line -- is skilled in teasing fact and fiction." - Chris Petit, The Guardian

"The authorial omniscience, satirical tone and historical veracity might seem quaint coming from a band of anarchists. Yet by the collective nature of its fluent voice, Wu Ming subverts traditional literary norms. In contrast with those Structuralist and Marxist academics who have produced reams of speculative theories on the death of the solitary auteur, Wu Ming has acted." - David Isaacson, The Independent

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